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The Great Survivors? 8 in the morning, March 9th

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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

* Labour and the Tories are “neck and neck” in the race to win key marginal seats, a new poll finds.

* This graphic has all the important numbers…

* Brown the Great Survivor: No one can survive in UK politics as long as Brown without possessing epic strengths, writes Steve Richards.

* George W. Bush has made a direct plea to David Cameron to support the Northern Ireland peace process, amid concern in the US about the Tories’ new electoral pact with the Ulster Unionists.

* Retail sales were up in February, according to the British retail consortium.

* A deal aimed at ending the long-running postal workers dispute has been agreed, including a 6.9% pay rise over three years.

* The Guardian has a feature on Labour’s “candidates to watch” as the party fills seats in the final weeks before the election…

* Rory-Cellan Jones opens the BBC’s “Digital Election” series.

Alex is the founder and CEO of The Cares Family. He was editor and first director of LabourList in 2009-2010, during which time he established the site as the number one Labour blog, and later an aide to Ed Miliband.

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